Painter Boss Paradise, Castle Crashers’ first new DLC since 2012, is out now, bringing with it customized characters, Steam Workshop integration, and an general graphics refresh for the 17-year-old recreation.
Named after unique Castle Crashers boss the Painter, the brand new DLC follows a reasonably clear creative theme. The DLC introduces Paint Junior as a brand new playable character, full with a brand new weapon and distinctive magical moveset. Paint Junior is the primary new addition to the Castle Crashers roster since Blacksmith and Pink Knight have been added in 2011.
The meat of the DLC is the brand-new Painter Boss Toolkit–a function that permits gamers to design their very own customized characters and weapon skins. Gamers will have the ability to customise their character’s head, physique, weapon, defend, portrait, beefy kind, and Again Off Barbarian artwork, through the use of a template offered by The Behemoth. The DLC additionally integrates Steam Workshop for the primary time, permitting gamers to discover and luxuriate in different followers’ customized creations.
Painter Boss Paradise comes with a handful of pre-loaded customized characters designed by The Behemoth’s artwork workforce, however the indie studio is encouraging followers to get their very own characters into the sport. Any characters who’re uploaded within the first week of the DLC could have an opportunity to be featured on the studio’s subsequent livestream.
The DLC additionally consists of brand-new artwork for playable characters, weapons, and the world map, however gamers can have the choice to toggle off the DLC at any time in the event that they want to return to the vanilla Castle Crashers expertise.
Gamers who select to not buy the brand new DLC will nonetheless get to profit from a basic replace to the bottom recreation, together with refreshes to artwork and animation, UI enhancements, and some different quality-of-life enhancements. Try all the changes for the bottom recreation and the Painter Boss Paradise DLC beneath:
International Updates (Basic + Recent)
The next updates are actually current within the base recreation of Castle Crashers, along with the DLC model!
1. Foremost Menu Artwork
8 new background vignettes primarily based on lore from the Castle Crashers universe have been added to the principle menu!
2. Video Settings: Borderless Window Mode and Max Framerate
Home windows customers now have entry to Borderless Window Mode in Video Settings. Home windows and Mac customers can now set a Most Framerate.3. Keyboard Settings
Magic macro binding choices have been added for keyboard customers.
4. Gameplay: Z-axis Hitbox
The dimensions of the Z-axis hitbox has been elevated. Your assaults can have a greater probability to be “lined up”!
5. Gameplay: Well being Potions
Foremost story solo play now has auto-heals enabled for Well being Potions.
6. Inexperienced Knight Replace
Inexperienced Knight is now not allergic to all types of juggling. What about Allergic Inexperienced Knight, you could ask? That’s a narrative for an additional time.
7. Artwork: Chainsaw Weapon
The Chainsaw Weapon now animates when held. WD-40!!!!
8. Artwork: Again Off Barbarian
All Again Off Barbarian character artwork has been up to date. (Besides Hatty as a result of Hatty is ideal.)
9. UI and Menus
The Foremost Menu, Pause Menu, and Settings Menu buttons have been reorganized and up to date.
10. Reset Stats Affirmation
The Reset Stats menu now has a hold-down affirmation when resetting character stats.
11. Appeal to Display screen Replace
The appeal to display screen that includes the 4 base knights has been up to date!
12. Steam Enter Help
Steam Enter Help has been added, supporting extra controllers and official actions when modifying.
13. Enhanced Wealthy Presence
Steam now shows participant character, XP degree, and managers, along with space.
14. Legacy Bug Fixes
Varied bug fixes have been applied to reinforce your beat ’em up expertise! To the group members who’ve despatched in bug experiences over time – thanks a lot from our (really smoll) huge rooster dev workforce!
Painter Boss Paradise DLC Updates
The next options are solely current for those who personal the Painter Boss Paradise DLC.
1. Character: Paint Junior
A model new official character has been added to the Castle Crashers roster, full with a brand new weapon and contemporary magic moveset that can be used for Customized Character creation!
2. Artwork: Playable Characters
All official playable characters within the traditional Castle Crashers roster have new portraits and in-game artwork.
3. Artwork: Equippable Weapons
All equippable weapons from the bottom recreation have up to date artwork.
4. Artwork: World Map
The world map has been fully redesigned for fancier adventuring!
5. Painter Boss Toolkit
A complete DLC toolkit has been added to help in Customized Character creation! To study extra concerning the toolkit and obtain the character template, please go to beh.gg/PBP.
6. Supervisor Menu
In the “Supervisor” menu, gamers can allow DLC characters and override current playable characters with Customized Character skins.
7. Weapon Skins
Customized Characters can toggle their weapon to be reskinned within the Weapons Frog through the Paint Brush. The weapon pores and skin utilized is all the time tied to the Customized Character’s artwork template. Solely going to the Weapon Frog and selecting a special weapon or utilizing the Paint Brush clears the Weapon Pores and skin.
8. Steam Workshop Capabilities
The Painter Boss DLC brings Steam Workshop capabilities to Castle Crashers for the primary time ever! Publish your creations for those who want to share them with the world, or obtain and allow group creations!
9. Behemoth DLC Character Assortment
Get pleasure from a whole lineup of DLC characters created by our artwork workforce, along with a number of the traditional knight designs delivered to the Steam Workshop! To get began with downloading DLC creations, you can find all of our Workshop characters here. Toggle them on and off at your whim! Make each enemy within the recreation Herbert! Save the princess as Ladderlad! Go on, now – Painter Boss Paradise awaits!